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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 44

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

nationaltrainingawards.com

Welcome to the National Training Awards - The UK's premier award for training and development

Page Load Speed

23.8 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

23.4 sec

Page Rendered

138 ms

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About Website

Welcome to nationaltrainingawards.com homepage info - get ready to check National Training Awards best content right away, or after learning these important things about nationaltrainingawards.com

Welcome to the National Training Awards The UK's most prestigious awards for training. 2010 National Training Awards are now open for entry.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nationaltrainingawards.com page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 23.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

nationaltrainingawards.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.086

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nationaltrainingawards.com

264 ms

analytics.js

114 ms

banner_styles.css

115 ms

cfmessage.js

170 ms

cfajax.js

174 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Nationaltrainingawards.com, 11% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ukskills.org.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.1 sec) relates to the external source Adobe.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.7 kB (33%)

Content Size

791.2 kB

After Optimization

533.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nationaltrainingawards.com main page is 791.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 452.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 20.2 kB
  • After minification 18.9 kB
  • After compression 5.8 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 14.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 241.8 kB
  • After minification 238.9 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. National Training Awards images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 226.4 kB

  • Original 452.8 kB
  • After minification 395.5 kB
  • After compression 226.4 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 226.4 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 76.4 kB
  • After minification 72.9 kB
  • After compression 62.3 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Nationaltrainingawards.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.1 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (33%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Training Awards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nationaltrainingawards.com

nationaltrainingawards.com

264 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

114 ms

banner_styles.css

banner_styles.css

115 ms

cfmessage.js

cfmessage.js

170 ms

cfajax.js

cfajax.js

174 ms

cfform.js

cfform.js

2767 ms

masks.js

masks.js

2909 ms

cfformhistory.js

cfformhistory.js

172 ms

nta.css

nta.css

228 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

341 ms

menu.js

menu.js

231 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

288 ms

jquery.innerfade.js

jquery.innerfade.js

289 ms

swfobject_modified.js

swfobject_modified.js

290 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

130 ms

get_flash_player.gif

get_flash_player.gif

20110 ms

cafre03.jpg

cafre03.jpg

427 ms

top_bg.jpg

top_bg.jpg

63 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

117 ms

large_employer_winner.jpg

large_employer_winner.jpg

115 ms

medium_employer_winner.jpg

medium_employer_winner.jpg

116 ms

small_employer_winner.jpg

small_employer_winner.jpg

117 ms

shining_title.jpg

shining_title.jpg

62 ms

video_title.jpg

video_title.jpg

123 ms

wsl2011.jpg

wsl2011.jpg

123 ms

paul.jpg

paul.jpg

186 ms

morrisons.jpg

morrisons.jpg

185 ms

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chipping_manor_dental_se.jpg

186 ms

interested_title.jpg

interested_title.jpg

185 ms

share.jpg

share.jpg

184 ms

linkedin_icon.png

linkedin_icon.png

184 ms

youtube_icon.png

youtube_icon.png

423 ms

nta_news.jpg

nta_news.jpg

423 ms

ukskills_news.jpg

ukskills_news.jpg

422 ms

IAW_IIP_logo.jpg

IAW_IIP_logo.jpg

423 ms

timer.gif

timer.gif

410 ms

prestigeous_title.jpg

prestigeous_title.jpg

404 ms

m-mcCyCdLeA

m-mcCyCdLeA

119 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

6 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

25 ms

base.js

base.js

47 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

130 ms

UCY5Klx_0fJhMytIltuKLUwnjJON9GWedkq6jjIrpW0.js

UCY5Klx_0fJhMytIltuKLUwnjJON9GWedkq6jjIrpW0.js

94 ms

embed.js

embed.js

29 ms

cafre03.jpg

cafre03.jpg

311 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

32 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc-.woff

99 ms

id

id

16 ms

Create

Create

76 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

14 ms

log_event

log_event

15 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

118 ms

ezine_signup.html

ezine_signup.html

118 ms

Accessibility Review

nationaltrainingawards.com accessibility score

44

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

nationaltrainingawards.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nationaltrainingawards.com SEO score

58

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nationaltrainingawards.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Nationaltrainingawards.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

nationaltrainingawards.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of National Training Awards. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: